Description

Manu road has the most pristine forest; famous place located in southern Peru, if you are in Cusco and you don’t have much time to visit time this mega diverse place, this would be a great opportunity considering that you are already in Cusco, in these 3 day we’ll have a unique experience, getting you closer to the nature.

Day 1: Cusco – Manu Road.

We pick you up early in the morning from you hotel to start our tour, we begin  7 – 8 hours journey over the Andes by ground transport, just out site Cusco, we’ll pass by several quaint village, with specific economical activities, like bakery, Peruvian Cuisine – «Guinea pig», etc.
before to leave the Andes we’ll stop for breakfast in beautiful colonial village of Paucartambo. a very important village in Colonial time for local trade market, then Continuing, we climb to the high point of the Manu Biosphere at  3500 m.a.s.l, this point is know like Ajanaco, officially at this point start Manu National Park, from this place we start descending all the way down the east slope to the cloud forest. habitat had changed totally just in few minutes driving, biodiversity and scenery are unique. we are surrounded by the most pristine forest all over the world, late in the day we’ll visit Andean Cock-of-the-Rock lek, where every day they come and shows their  performance, several males together sing and dance right in from of our eyes.

Night: San Pedro. B:L:D.

Day 2: Machu Wasi Oxbow Lake – Lowland Forest.

After a long and relaxing night we continue our excursion to tropical rainforest. along the way we enjoy nice landscaped and wildlife, we stop in small orchid garden, with not only ornamental but also medicinal plants.
Going down the road we arrive to Atalaya, small village where we change our transport into a motorized canoe, riding half an hour about down stream, the river that we saw back in the mountains, its getting bigger and bigger, with chance to sail on this rapids.
Alto Madre de Dios river is fast with lots of rapids and meanders are not it special feature, where easily can be formed an oxbow lake, compare with lowland river, even that, its possible to see some of them, like Machuwasi lake.
visiting this lake in a traditional balsa rafts,  enjoying the rainforest, landscape, birds, fishes under the water and wildlife in general; late in the day we walk back to get our canoe, on the ride back more wildlife its present along the river banks and flying over the river like different species of Macaws

Night: San Pedro. B:L:D.

Day 3: Cloud forest – Cusco.

Our final morning in this paradise offer us second chance to visit the amazing Andean Cock-of-the-rock lek, we walk along the road looking for some bird  mixed flocks, monkeys and everything that we can find, Golden-headed quetzals, Amazonian umbrella bird, Black-and-Chestnut & Solitary Eagle, Gray-breasted mountain Toucan are some possibilities, arriving in Cusco in the afternoon,

We conclude the tour leaving you in your hotel.

Night: Cusco. B:L.

What to Bring:

• Please do not bring too much luggage. For domestic flights you can hold 23 kg. ( 50.7063 lbs.) and 8 kg. (17.637 lbs.) in hand luggage. Extra costs run by yourselves.
• Lightweight comfortable clothing is recommended, i.e. standard field pants and shirts for the
  entire trip, some jackets, gloves, for cold places is enough, at least for the Cusco area.
• Day back pack is recommended, we have some walking and you need to pack daily use devices.
• Sunblock and hat or cap.
• An umbrella and rain poncho, remember even if you have a good weather forecast, this can change suddenly.
• Please using camouflaged clothing would be OK, not really any military clothing avoid the second.
• Shower thongs / rubber flip flops will be useful.

Recommendation:

• Camera.
• Binoculars.
• Extra Batteries.
• Telescope (Optional).

General:

• we’ll visit protected national Park our tour will primarily be on forested roads and some trails – difficulty is totally easy level.
• We will be moving between 3400 – 600 meters, asl (11154.86 – 1968.5 feet), . Mostly between 600 – 2400 meters.
• We will experience all kinds of weather, but no special clothing is necessary.
• We will have electric power at all our destinations. There are sockets inside all rooms with 220 volt
  electricity, lodges provide this service by generator from 6 – 9 pm.
• Please note be sure and bring extra batteries sometimes one single battery is not enough for one day
• additional memory card would be OK, please remember to download your previous day photos.

Medical and Health Information:

High altitude information you may find useful. Arriving in Cusco is not a problem because you were already in this town, if you didn’t stay in Cusco yet, is not a problem because our Nature tour is relaxing, we try to avoid physical effort mostly we’ll be driving with short conformable walks, Adjusting to higher altitude is a very individual thing.
Some may feel no effects at all, some may have minor effects, and others may experience great difficulty.
You may feel the lack of oxygen, and will easily get “out of breath” You may feel a little nauseous, have a headache, or tire easily.. You will acclimatize to it by producing more red blood cells, so you should make sure you stay well hydrated, avoid physical effort as the extra cells thicken your blood. and Coca Tea its very helpful.

Drink lots of water, while avoiding alcohol or caffeine. Dehydration can make any effects of altitude worse. Try to avoid overeating the first day.

your safety and well-being is of first importance above all else.

Therefore, I will be making frequent checks to make sure everyone is feeling well.
If someone in the group isn’t feeling well easily we can visit and small hospital to be sure that you are OK at the same time we can ask for some medicine at the drugstore after doctor diagnostic.
There are medications available for altitude sickness. Please check with your doctor. For the headache, you can take an over-the-counter medicine, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or naproxen (Aleve).

Travel insurance

Our suggestion is that you use travel insurance service. The normal price of this tour not cover travel insurance.

Books:

Birds of Peru is the best field Guide.
If you consider you can bring some other field guide are welcome.

+ Prices Include:

• Private transport in all the way.
• All accommodations in all the tour (Cusco/Cusco).
• Three meals per day (breakfast, lunch/ picnic or box lunch depending where we are, dinner, snacks, water available all the time).
• Naturalist Guide specialist.
• River transport.
• Entrances to all Archaeological sites and Birding spots.
• Transfers in Cusco.
• Basically full board in a private tour.
• Oxygen Bottle.

– Not included:

• Laundry, calls, medical costs or hospitalization, excess baggage charges, insurance, or other items of personal nature.

What I (guide) will have with me

• Recording stuff Roland R-05/Microphone SENNHEISER ME66/K6.
• Two iPods- speakers.
• A Swarovski ATX 80 scope 20-60 zoom
• Green laser pointer
• Owling light.
• GPS.
• Personal Swarovski Binoculars.
• I will be carrying the new field guide Birds of Peru this can be found on www.amazon.com.

Tour Calendar 2023:

• Departures are every Saturday !!!

If you need private or customized tour please contact us for more information:

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